Examines how supervisee perceptions (N=105) of their own and their supervisor's racial identity affected the supervisory working alliance and the development of multicultural competence. Results indicate that racial identity interactions predicted aspects of the supervisory alliance. Supervisees who engaged in parallel-high interactions reported…

Details the participation of Asian American high school students in pan-Asian student organizations, reporting that most of the schools' Asian Americans embraced Asian American panethnicity as a source of personal pride, social support, and political strength. Students also fashioned differing versions of panethnicity to accommodate their varied…

Focuses on two sets of variables that may influence perceptions of helpers in a predominantly European American campus environment. Analysis of 180 African American undergraduates shows that ethnic identity and alienation distinctly influence attitudes toward, and knowledge of, campus mental health services, as well as preference for ethnic…

States unequivocally that the classification of humans into races has no validity within the discipline of biology. Maintains that such classification is strictly cultural and any attempt to discern differences in cognitive or other abilities among populations must confront the limits of scientific knowledge. (MJP)

Experiential programs should augment the positive self-perceptions of African American youth. Nigrescence and the Cross Model of Racial Identity are explained, along with their usefulness in helping experiential educators identify personal cultural awareness, accept differences, and create positive communities of self-confident African American…

Responds to two opening articles by Parham ("Cycles of Psychological Nigrescence") and Helms ("Considering Some Methodological Issues in Racial Identity Counseling Research"). Provides suggestions for expanding and testing models of racial identity development, and calls for expanded methods of measuring racial identity, and…

Comments on two opening articles by Parham ("Cycles of Psychological Nigrescence") and Helms ("Considering Some Methodological Issues in Racial Identity Counseling Research"). Shows how the Nigrescence process has been a constant of Black history, having evolved in response to the efforts of White slave owners to deracinate…

Discusses Black Americans' concern about what to call themselves and examines attempts to develop an Afrocentric point of view. Questions an automatic identification between African-Americans and Africa, citing political, historical, and socioeconomic factors that qualify assumptions of cultural continuity, and calls for continued assessment and…

Race is no longer considered to be a core anthropological concept by a majority of anthropologists. This article proposes that the dual notions of ethnicity, to account for cultural variation, and "cline," or geographic variation, to account for biological variation, are appropriate alternatives to the race concept for classroom…

This paper examines theoretical and empirical contributions to racial differences in spot performance and describes a framework for viewing race as a movement self-schema. The roles of television, modeling, expectation theory, and sociological influences are discussed as possible activators of racial movement self-schemata. (JB)

Examined age and individual differences in racial attitudes among Black Canadian children, and explored how racial cognition might influence the development of in-group pride. Results from 66 children show racial differences increased with age, that constancy and reconciliation were not associated with racial attitudes, and that racially biased…

Four experiments explored adults' and grade school children's beliefs about inheritability of racial identity. Found that older children and adults believed that mixed-race children possessed black racial features. Also found that children from an integrated school, regardless of race, expected mixed-race children to have intermediate racial…

This article discusses characteristics of biracial children, identifies pressures facing interracial families, notes societal myths about interracial families, and considers identity development of the biracial child. Fifteen specific teaching strategies for supporting biracial children in school settings are suggested. (DB)

Discusses the dualism of literacy and education as an individual possession and communally embedded commodity within many segments of the African-American community, drawing on information from 25 adults. Literacy is an ever-changing continuous activity shaped by cultural and community beliefs about the price of education and rewards of learning.…

The extent to which black consciousness and self-esteem are associated with satisfaction with physical appearance is explored for 152 African-American female college students. Satisfaction with overall physical appearance and black consciousness have a moderate relationship. A strong relationship exists for self-esteem and satisfaction with facial…